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50 Lire
| Uitgever | Military Authority in Tripolitania |
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| Jaar | 1943 |
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| Waarde | 50 Lire |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central vignette of a lion passant guardant atop a royal crown within an oval frame, flanked by oak branch sprays, printed in brown on a tan ground. The denomination "FIFTY LIRE" appears in large letters to the left and right of the central vignette. The issuing authority legend runs along the top in English and along the bottom in Arabic script, with the numeral "50" and "LIRE" repeated in each corner. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche medallion bearing the numeral "50" over the word "LIRE" in white relief against a fine lathe-work underprint, surrounded by elaborate acanthus-leaf scrollwork and floral ornaments in brown. A green guilloche border frames the entire note, with rosette corner pieces reinforcing the decorative scheme. The overall design is purely typographic and ornamental, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Allied Military Authority issued these notes across occupied Italian North Africa as part of the broader AM Lire program coordinated between the United States and Britain following the fall of Axis forces in Libya in early 1943. Tripolitania fell to the British Eighth Army in January of that year, and military currency was required almost immediately to replace the Italian colonial lire and prevent economic disruption in the occupied zone.
The AM Lire series is occasionally misattributed to a single printer, but production was split between facilities in the US and UK, and the two outputs are distinguishable by subtle typographic differences — a known headache for series collectors.